The Debian Women group
held an
IRC meeting on September 7 on the topic of how to encourage women to get
involved in Debian. Projects were discussed for the next Outreach Program for
Women, but also smaller tasks and rewards for people that do not know how to
contribute. It was also proposed to hold local events, possibly with other
groups of women involved in FLOSS, and to restart IRC training sessions.
The meeting was well attended and discussions continued after the official end.
Margarita Manterola published
minutes of
the meeting.

Niels Thykier sent
some
bits from the Release Team, containing
proposals to improve the Jessie development cycle: a change to the
testing migration rule, automated removals and automated metrics for
architecture qualification for Jessie.

Lucas Nussbaum sent his
monthly
report of DPL activities for August 2013. Among other things, Lucas mentioned
the status of MariaDB in Debian and the fact that Debian was invited to
participate in the OpenZFS community.
He also summarised some actions taken as a consequence of the
survey
of new contributors, such as the creation of a package how-can-i-help,
and moves to encourage the asking of packaging questions on localised mailing lists.
He also mentioned that the next Outreach Program for Women will
start soon. If you are willing to be a coordinator for the Debian side, please contact
the Debian Women mailing list.

Martin Zobel-Helas
sent
his report of the GanetiConf 2013, where he gave a talk
about Debian's experience of Ganeti. Ganeti is a cluster virtual server
management software tool that has been deployed to all of the new Debian KVM
virtualization servers.

Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the packages:
tzdata and
libdatetime-timezone-perl.
Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.

Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about
security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please
subscribe to the security mailing
list (and the separate backports
list, and stable updates
list) for announcements.

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